With two weeks to go before he is sentenced for fatally shooting a limousine driver in 2002, Jayson Williams has been spending time with family and getting his affairs in order.

Now, there’s one more thing the former New Jersey Nets star needs to resolve.

A former teammate from his days with the Philadelphia 76ers crashed Williams’ car in Myrtle Beach, S.C., last month, but local police believe Williams was actually behind the wheel.

Charles Shackleford, 43, who lives in Myrtle Beach, said he was driving the 2006 Cadillac sedan that rear-ended a Jeep last month. But, he insists, police did not ask him for a license and, because of blemishes on his own driving record, he didn’t provide his name.

"They just assumed it (was Williams driving), and I didn’t say anything," said Shackleford, who also played for the Nets.

Williams owns property in South Carolina. Shackleford said he was driving the Cadillac because he had picked it up at the shop for Williams.

He said he would clear up the situation.

"I’m going to call my attorney and have them give the people down there a call and see what they can do," he said.

The accident occurred shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, according to traffic reports. Police said the driver identified himself to them as Williams. The two people in the car that was rear-ended said the driver identified himself as a former NBA player.

"Mr. Williams did not have a driver’s license, so they ran (a computer check) by his name and date of birth," said Capt. David Knipes, a spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police Department. The information came back to a valid driver’s license for Williams, he said.

"I don’t even know Jayson’s date of birth," said Shackleford, who insisted he did not give police the information.

The driver of the car that was hit, Sherwood Helmick Jr., of Barnwell, S.C., said yesterday he does not follow basketball and is not familiar with Jayson Williams. After the collision, Helmick said, a man he described as tall, bald and dark-skinned approached his car, claiming to be a former NBA player, said Helmick, 28.

"I got out and cussed him out for hitting me because I hadn’t had my Jeep but seven days," Helmick said in a telephone interview. His wife, Kimberly, who was also in the car, has suffered back pain since the accident, he said.

"(The driver) said he would give me $1,000 if I didn’t call the law," Helmick said, adding that the accident damaged his Jeep’s rear bumper. The impact was hard enough, he said, to also damage the gas gage on the vehicle.

"As far as we’re concerned, as of this time, (Williams) was the driver of the vehicle," Knipes said. "He was also given a ticket for failure to use due care and a court date, March 1." The traffic violation carries an $81 fine.

Williams, however, has a more pressing court date in New Jersey. On Feb. 23, he will return to Superior Court in Somerville, where he is expected to be sentenced to 18 months in prison for aggravted assault as part of a plea deal for fatally shooting Costas "Gus" Christofi, 55, on Feb. 14, 2002, at the estate Williams owned in Alexandria Township.

While awaiting sentence, Williams has been getting his affairs in order and spending time with his young daughters, said Akhtar Farzaie, his friend and manager.

He was with them in New Jersey on the date of the South Carolina car accident, Farzaie said.

Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer), who attends Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, with Williams’ mother-in-law, also said she saw Williams was in Trenton on Jan. 23 for a church concert in which his daughters and wife, Tanya Young Williams, performed.

Hundreds of people attended, she said.

"I’m not the only one who saw him," she said. "My husband nodded to him, and my brother was sitting right behind him." she said.